Chris Grosvenor Cinema on the Front Line (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Cinema on the Front LineCondition: NewEAN: 9781905816736ISBN: 9781905816736Publisher: University of Exeter PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/29/2021Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmItem Weight: 560gAuthor: Chris GrosvenorLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: British Soldiers and Cinema in the First World WarDescription: Winner of the Theatre Library Association’s 2021 Richard Wall Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of recorded performance. Cinema on the Front Line offers the first comprehensive history and analysis of how the medium of cinema intersected with the lives of British soldiers during the First World War. Documenting the wartime use of cinema, from domestic recruitment drives to makeshift theatrical venues established on the front line, and then in convalescent hospitals and camps, this book provides evidence of the previously unacknowledged importance of the medium as recreational support and entertainment for soldiers living through the trauma of conflict. Presenting the fruits of his archival research, the author makes extensive use of war diaries and other military records to foreground the voices and perspectives of British soldiers themselves. Including discussion of over 70 films, this book will interest specialists in British film history, propaganda film, exhibition and audience studies, as well as historians and students of the First World War, propaganda and the military. DOI: https://doi.org/10.47788/LAML7430Country/Region of Manufacture: GBBook Series: Exeter Studies in Film HistoryGenre: HistoryTopic: Military History, Society & Culture, Films & TVRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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